Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Jose Ortega y GassetPhilosopher · Spanish · 1883 – 1955
More from Jose Ortega y Gasset
History Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw
  • The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein
  • My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson
  • The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026